Katie Brunck enters her first season as an assistant on the
Mariner’s coaching staff. She comes to the academy
after spending two years as an assistant coach at NYU Poly.

Her responsibilities at NYU Poly included coordinating
recruiting efforts, instituting offensive sets, managing practice
schedules, and sending out game contracts. While there, the
team broke the school record for wins in a season, tallying a 19-8
mark; significantly improving on their previous best season of
12-13.

Brunck helped the team qualify for their first ECAC tournament
and under her guidance, had two 1,000 point scorers, two first team
all-conference selections, a conference player of the year, a first
team All-ECAC player, and a first team All-Metropolitan
selection.

She also aided in the development of NCAA D-III nationally
ranked leaders including the #4 ranked double-double producer, #7
ranked rebounder , #39 ranked assists leader, and #41 ranked scorer
in points per game.

Before Brunck began coaching, she was a member of four
consecutive regular season conference championship teams at
Northwood from 2006-2010, including one NAIA tournament
appearance.

In 2010, Brunck graduated from Northwood University with a
Bachelor of Business Administration in business management, where
she received Dean’s List honors all four years. In
2012, she earned her Master of Science in organizational behavior
from NYU Polytechnic Institute with a concentration in training and
development.